Pfoho Male Held at Gunpoint Near Quad

A male student in Pforzheimer House was robbed at gunpoint Monday at 10:30 p.m. on Linnaean Street while walking toward Mass. Ave., according to the Cambridge police log.

The student was not injured. The suspect allegedly stole the student’s wallet and cell phone.

Cambridge police responded to the incident and arrested a suspect.

Soon after the incident, Aaron Burnes, 19, was arrested for armed robbery, carrying a firearm without a license, possession of a firearm in a felony, and the possession of a large capacity firearm, according to the police log.

House Masters Nicholas A. Christakis and Erika L. Christakis ’86 sent an email to Pforzheimer residents about the incident.

In the email, they wrote that HUPD has increased the presence of security guards on campus.

“As we’ve seen from the Kirkland shooting, no part of the campus is immune to this sort of thing,” Nicholas Christakis said in an interview Tuesday night.

He has been in contact with the other Quad House Masters to discuss whether the Quad is particularly vulnerable to this type of crime.

“It’s hard to know whether [the Quad] is slightly less trafficked or not,” he said.

The College is working with HUPD to determine if there are any responses Quad Masters and students can take, Nicholas Christakis said.

“We don’t want to underreact or overreact,” he said.

“We’re aware of the fact that we live in a city and everyone has to be careful,” he said.

Last Tuesday at 10:50 p.m., a male graduate student was robbed at knife point on Prescott Street near the Harvard Faculty Club.

HUPD advised students to use well-lit routes or designated pathways and  the shuttle bus services in the email from the  House Masters.

—Staff writer Kerry M. Flynn can be reached at kflynn@college.harvard.edu.